mania-, -mania, -maniac, -maniacal, -manic, -manically, -maniacally
(Greek: a specific mental disorder or obsessive preoccupation with something; madness, frenzy; obsession, or abnormal desire for or with something or someone; also, an excessive enthusiasm or fondness for something that is not safe or advantageous)
An irresistible urge to return home; homesickness: When away on a foreign exchange program in Germany, one of the students was afflicted with philopatridomania and flew back to his family within a month of his stay.
It is not uncommon for young students to have a case of philopatridomania, if it is the very first time to be away from home and family.
A case of philopatridomania can also be a compulsion to return to one’s native land, as seen in prisoners of war.
phlebotomomania
A compulsion for bloodletting as was once practiced by “medical” doctors who believed that most illnesses were caused by diseased blood and could only be cured by bleeding their patients; even if it killed them.
phonomania
Defined as homicidal mania (where Greek phonos = murder); an older term for homicidomania.
phonomania
An obsession with noise or sounds.
photomania
1. An irresistible craving for light or the sun (heliolatry).
2. A morbid or exaggerated desire for light.
3. Maniacal symptoms increased by the effect of light.
2. A morbid or exaggerated desire for light.
3. Maniacal symptoms increased by the effect of light.
phrenomania
An obsolete term for collapse delirium; delirious mania.
phronemomania
A compulsion to be thinking all the time.
phthisiomania
An abnormal interest in tuberculosis; such as, an over concern that one might contract the disease.
phyllomania
An abnormally excessive development of leaves.
phytomania
A craze for collecting plants.
planomania
1. A compulsion to wander.
2. The morbid impulse to leave home and discard many social restraints.
3. A strong desire, or urge, to live a life of simplicity free from social restraints or obligations.
2. The morbid impulse to leave home and discard many social restraints.
3. A strong desire, or urge, to live a life of simplicity free from social restraints or obligations.
1. An insane love of or pursuit of wealth: The old man was known for his plutomania in that he was always seeking financial advantages instead of friendships.
2. A form of insanity in which people imagine or delude themselves into thinking that they possess great wealth: The doctor diagnosed Mr. Smith as having a severe case of plutomania based on his observation that the patient pretended to be wealthy and frequently wrote checks involving fictitious bank accounts.
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2. A form of insanity in which people imagine or delude themselves into thinking that they possess great wealth: The doctor diagnosed Mr. Smith as having a severe case of plutomania based on his observation that the patient pretended to be wealthy and frequently wrote checks involving fictitious bank accounts.
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Characterized by a person who has an insane love or pursuit of wealth: "Kim's father had a reputation for being a plutomaniac who emphasized his financial gains much more than any devotion to his family."
Someone who is obsessed with having a beard: Alfred was a pogomaniac who had a long beard and was not interested in what people commented about it, no matter what the unhealthy conditions might be that existed with beards or other negative aspects of beards.
An excessive desire to have a beard or an obsession with seeing men with beards: Mr. Thompson had an immoderate fascination of men's beards, and spent a lot of time with his own beard. He even joined a club with others who were absorbed in beards, whiskers, and goatees, known as pogonomania
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Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave": fur-, furi-; ira-; lysso-; rab-, rav-.
